Gilles Lipovetsky is the author of the celebrated essays The Age of Void, The Empire of the Ephemeral, The Twilight of Duty, The Third Woman, Metamorphosis of Liberal Culture, Eternal Luxury (with Elyette Roux), The Hypermodern Times (with Sébastien Charles), The Paradoxical Happiness, The Society of Disappointment (with Jean Serroy), The Global Screen, The World Culture, The Globalized West (with Hervé Juvin), The Aesthetization of the World and Of Lightness, all published in Anagram . It has been considered "the heir of Tocqueville and Louis Dumont" (Luc Ferry) and "a star of the analysts of the contemporaneity" (Vicente Verdú).